Barry Clements
Barry is from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. He is currently studying bass trombone with Dave Stewart at the Royal College of Music.
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Read more about Barry...Bob Dowell
Trombonist/arranger/orchestrator/educator, from north London Worked with and recorded for bands/artists including.. Dizzee Rascal, Dr. John, The Streets, Paloma Faith, The Bays, Dub Colossus, MosDef, The GoTeam!, Kate Nash, The Pipettes, The Big Sounds, Mike Garrick Bigband, Gareth Lockrane Big Band. London Jazz Orchestra, Tom Richard’s Jazz Orchestra, Alex Wilson Salsa Orchestra, Mali Latino, The Will Collier Septet, The Heritage Orchestra, Katerina & The Waves, Down To The Bone, The Heart Strings, Daniel Beddingfield, Barefoot, SaintSaviour, Black II Basics, The Brothers Ignatius, The Coalminers, Mamas Gun, The Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Yoda, Monty Norman (James Bond Theme) Earl Thomas, UNKLE, Kevin Mark-Trail, Ministry of Sound, The Monastery of Sound,.
Read more about Bob...Chris Eldred
Current piano player in NYJO.
Studying at Trinity College of Music, London, on the jazz course Yr3.
Influences – Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.
Enjoy jazz/classical/pop/anything really! I play in a salsa band as well.
Read more about Chris...Chris Valentine
I’ve been attending NYJO for the last 2 and a half years now and in the last year I have moved up from NYJO2 to the main NYJO group.
Read more about Chris...Claire Mcinerney
Claire is a young established musician and a graduate of Trinity College of Music. Based in London, Claire plays all the saxophones, flutes and clarinets, working in television, studio, West End shows, Big Bands, symphony orchestras and jazz arenas.
Read more about Claire...Emma Smith
Having already shared the stage with the likes of Dame Cleo Laine, the late Sir John Dankworth and ‘BBC Jazz vocalist of the year’ winners Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw, nineteen year old Emma Smith is well on her way to her achieving her dream of being an accomplished jazz singer. At age 14 she [...]
Read more about emma...Felix Higginbottom
A young up-and-coming musician with an uncommonly strong background in a broad range of music (also playing the cello, bass guitar, piano, and singing). In 2007 He won the young musicians equipment bursary. After Studying with Keith Fairbairn (first call London percussionist) and Alan Graham (vibraphone legend), Felix moved on to KCL and RAM to study a music degree. Having a very musical ear allows him to sit within a group, listening and communicating with the other musicians whilst remaining \’tight\’. Felix regularly performs in public and profits from his ability as a proficient sight-reader, chart-reader, playing from memory and to a click track.
Read more about Felix...Gill Burgoyne
My parents shared their love of Big Band music with my older brother and I from an early age, and I was hooked on recordings of Stan Kenton,Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. Presented with the opportunity to learn the clarinet aged 9, I applied myself to the classical charts.
Read more about Gill...Helen Wilson
Helen Wilson plays the flute and aged 12 took up a place at Chethams School of Music, Manchester, where she studied with Gitte Sorenson, Linda Verrier, and Richard Davis. She then accepted a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester in 2007 to carry on her studies with Richard and now learns with Anders Ljungar Chapelon on an exchange programme at the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden.
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